An earthquake swarm is a series of small quakes that “may occur in a region for months without a major earthquake,” according to Britannica.. Getty Images/iStockphoto A swarm of a half-dozen ...

In an unassuming town outside Detroit, a small American startup is quietly preparing U.S. troops for the next era of warfare — where battles won’t be fought by soldiers but by swarms of machines.

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

Multiple earthquakes rattled the Bay Area Friday and Saturday evenings, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. On Saturday evening, the seismic activity continued around San Ramon. Shortly after ...

A novel uncrewed aircraft unveiled by China in late 2024 to deploy large numbers of small drones has recently logged its first flight. Known alternatively as the “Jetank” or “Jiutian”, the large ...

An artist’s impression of exocomets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of ...

I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...

What if the future of robotics wasn’t a single machine but an intelligent swarm, moving as one, adapting to its environment, and executing tasks with precision? Imagine a fleet of drones navigating a ...